The real goal is to then charge the user $2.99 to block their camera from being turned on.
I would do this for just 1.99
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Not2Dopey@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Dhar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Make it an auction
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“fuck, I don’t have enough money for park avenue”
lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 months ago
Do it and you’d see my camera cover
glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I prefer the classic post it note personally.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I feel that a faulty webcam driver that causes a kernel panic would work best. They turn your camera on and you drop from the call.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All you would see is my camera cover, lol
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
I think Dell once patented a mechanical cover system for their laptops.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All the laptops I have owned over the last 10 years have a mechanical shutter to cover the camera. None have been Dell.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You like looking at the back of a piece of electrical tape?
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All you would see is my floor and a pile of wires
My webcam falls off and I just leave it there
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tbh I’d be more likely to want to turn it off
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 months ago
You’d get a pious, stating that someone paid 1.99 to turn your camera an. For just 5.99 you can make sure it stays off.
This could also be implemented as a bidding war like eBay.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?
Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s weird that people used to be concerened with covering their laptop camera, but people don’t care about their phone camera.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“Most of the time your phone is in your pocket” he says writing on his phone…
grozzle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
i really miss pop-up cameras on phones.
good peace of mind knowing the fucker is tucked away inside.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some laptops come with that built in, or you could use some scotch tape and a little square of paper for free
Belgdore@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I used the sticky part of a post-it before I had a laptop with a built in slider
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 months ago
love my frameworks mic and camera hardware switches.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 months ago
One of it’s greatest features.
ytg@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Fortunately, browsers have safeguards against this sort of thing (activating the camera without user interaction)
…right?
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zuck always has a piece of tape over his camera when you see his laptop. That’s all you need to know.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I saw probably the same photo as you! The article wasn’t even about that, we just noticed it in the photo. I immediately went and taped over my camera.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
TBF, dude has probably the entire world trying to hack him, the avergae person doesn’t have that high of a risk.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Both my work laptop and personal laptop have mechanical shutters that can only be opened by hand.
They’re both Thinkpads.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They hand those out at conventions too (or you can buy them, I guess). It’s basically just a small sticker that you can just stick over your shutterless camera and now it has a shutter.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
One of the main motivating factors for me to get a Lenovo.
lud@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Most Dell latitudes and precisions also have a physical shutter.
I love that feature. It makes me more comfortable around the computer because no one can look at me without my consent.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
In my experience people click accept without reading or thinking, and usually remember this setting which they may have already done previously.
In any case all my cameras have physical blockers
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Browsers and some operating systems.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s a fucking joke and so many of you are being smug with “not me!”
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Half the userbase is on the spectrum, and cannot discern satire from a serious post.
Patrik@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Laddie, the whole Internet is going so to shit, that it’s hard to discern satire from real bullshit.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months ago
Is this legit? Brave’s AI summary claims that Teams indeed gives this option to the host. However, it points to a Teams documentation page that does not mention such feature.
cashsky@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
AI
Why would you trust any AI like that
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Holy shit.
He’s at -41 right now, and you at +22.
He obviously isn’t trusting the AI, he’s asking here to verify it since he couldn’t find any first-hand information to contradict it.
Lemmy is already getting to be more fucking toxic than reddit. JFC.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months ago
I don’t blindly trust AI responses. However, that was way too concerning not to ask about it, considering that I work from home and that we use Teams.
genuineparts@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It’s either my broken self or a symptom of the time that I cannot tell if this is a honest question. I hope it isn’t.
Just in case: It’s not a real thing. Yet.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months ago
It was an honest question. I have seen various other horrible features, like Glassdoor allowing paying employers to remove negative ratings, so I freaked out a bit in case Teams has hidden features as well.
I know this is shitpost, but since there was another indication of such feature existing (although untrustworthy - the Brave Search’s AI summary), I wanted to confirm.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Beyond the other answers stating that this isn’t real:
Teams doesn’t do one off charges for functionality like this. All functionality is managed by licensing, managed through your workplace’s Azure tenant. Don’t have the license, don’t have the feature. Need the feature? Time to work with Microsoft billing to get you a new license (or additional one) and then your IT team to have the license applied to your account.
There aren’t usually any upsells displayed to end users. In our environment we’ve only seen a rare “this functionality is not available on your license, go complain to your admin” type message, but usually it just doesn’t display unavailable options.
On top of all that, Microsoft is dumb, but not this dumb. Last thing their team of lawyers would want is for them to be involved in some sort of “involuntary pornography” case or something.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I just don’t plug a camera in
yonder@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
$4.99 to plug in their camera
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Considering the implications for making that happen, that’s hella cheap.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
But i thought everyone helicopters during meetings. How else am i supposed to meet my step goal
missandry351@lemmings.world 2 months ago
My camera has a cover 😂😂😂 I hope you like your screens pitch black because it’s the only thing you will see
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shit, I’d pay more than that each time.
starbrite@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Does the person on the other end get a notification or do they just remain oblivious to their boss spying on them?
genfood@feddit.org 2 months ago
No usually you do not get an immediate notification, but you can indeed see it by constantly checking you small camera window in the corner of the meeting. But you have to stay focused.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jokes on you, I got mic and cam on a physical USB-switch. So unless I go in “conference mode”, your attack is futile
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Don’t try this in an elementary school virtual classroom, or you have a chance of going straight to jail
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Join the NSA and get paid for it
terminhell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What app is this?!
genfood@feddit.org 2 months ago
This is the new version of Microsoft Tesms
jojowasher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
boreengreen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can’t even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.
elvith@feddit.org 2 months ago
I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Years ago, I’d laugh at this.
Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.
On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This, but it’s not a loop 😏